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John Baron: We ignore the lessons of Libya at our cost
2 December 2015 15:22 GMT
Conservative MP John Baron is talking about the “mythical” 70,000 ground troops Cameron says are on the ground ready to fight IS.
“Everybody is having trouble identifying the ground forces and who should supply them,” he said.
Baron said he has recently visited Tehran, Abu Dhabi, and other regional capitals to discuss the Syrian civil war.
He said that officials in the region kept telling him there are “very few moderates remaining in Syria”.
“Even if you believe the 70,000 figure, what the strategy doesn’t address … is what is stopping these moderates … splintering into a 100 or 1000 militias as we saw in Libya? We ignore the lessons of Libya at our cost.”
Baron confirms that he will oppose the government motion.